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With the exception of "The Last Stand" I think my abiding memory of that season was beating Bristol City (4-1 was it?) in sub zero temperatures with sleet falling all around. Was fvcking freezing that day.

Also remember Salako scoring a comeback hat trick, think it was against Stoke.

That was basically Coppell's team. With the exception of Paul Stewart, Smith's signings were pretty nondescript on the whole.

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We won it by 7 points so hardly that close. I will always be disappointed we didn't show up for the last game of the season vs Watford.

Have you seen the gap between what Millwall got in 3rd place ? You are right about the Watford game though and a 10 point margin of victory would have been even sweeter but even so, we romped that league. And it aint often you can write that about Palace.

I will always be disappointed we didn't show up for the last game of the season vs Watford.

Fantastic pitch invasion afterwards though. I remember finding £10 on the floor & going in the club shop to find the white away kit for sale at £9.99 - I was a very happy 8 year old on the way back from SE25 that day.

& the players wore those taccy "WE'RE BACK" t-shirts. during the ceremony.

Judging by your username, this was the thread you were waiting for!

I've joked about it on here before, but I always remember When Nigel Martyn was asked about what effect the newly appointed Smith had had on the squad, and he said something about him having some flowers planted around the dressing rooms!

From what I recall, they did the trophy ceremony etc before the game, and the players said they were exhausted before the game even began. It should have been done at the end.

When I posted it earlier afterwards I thought, hmmm they were probably all pissed whilst playing.

I went to Millwall away on New Years Day as a nine year old. Never experienced such hate, scum and vitriol aimed at 6-9 year olds by a bunch of 50+ year old men. It is memory that has always stuck with me and the main reason why I will always hate Millwall more than Brighton.

Other personal memories:
• Going to see us mid week against Peterborough at home, turning up to find we were 0-1 down and getting the flu.
• Freezing my arse off at the Bristol City game PK mentioned.
• Ranting to my friends that we were denied a blatant winner at Home to Bolton and saying I was going to write to the FA.
• My Dad never bloody buying me the Green goalkeeper shirt I pestered him for every single game.

Someone had the idea that there woulod be no sales in advance and it would be pay on the day only. Oxford were getting crowds of aboyr 5.5k-6k in their league games at the time and Palace took close to 10k there that day if i remember rightly. People were watching from up trees, they were shifting oxford fans around to try and open up more sections for Palace fans to get in as thousands were outside.

With the exception of "The Last Stand" I think my abiding memory of that season was beating Bristol City (4-1 was it?) in sub zero temperatures with sleet falling all around. Was fvcking freezing that day.

Also remember Salako scoring a comeback hat trick, think it was against Stoke.

That was basically Coppell's team. With the exception of Paul Stewart, Smith's signings were pretty nondescript on the whole.

I can't remember who it was against but either in his come back game or there abouts the away fans were singing "you'll never play for England" to Salako, which was pretty thick as at that stage he alread had done! He then went on to score a hatrick - 1 goal was a stunner IIRC!

Loved that season and done my most ever games in a season. Particularly remember the early away games at Birmingham midweek and West Brom where we tore them apart!

Great counter attacking football we played and seemed to take thousands at most away days. In fact the away games were the best memories. The two mentioned above, Stoke, the Oxford lock out, Forest, Watford, Portsmouth, Barnsley and Armstrongs 9 second goal and winning the league at boro. Think we had two 30000 crowds at the end of the season, obviously the Watford one and I think it was barnsley before that was virtually full.

There was a strong midlands challenge that year and remember teams like Derby and I think Leicester scoring against us and having mini pitch invasions which we then returned when Damian Martin equalised at Forest

The 2 pivotable points in the season for me was drawing away at Forest and getting Paul Stewart in.